Table 2.
Complication rates for dialysis access procedures for interventional nephrologists
| Procedure | 2004 |
2014 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Minor (%) | Major (%) | No. | Minor (%) | Major (%) | |
| TDC-Place | 1,765 | 1.36 | 0.06 | 4,038 | 0.42 | 0.15 |
| TDC-Ex | 2,262 | 1.37 | 0.04 | 8,851 | 0.19 | 0.15 |
| AVF-PTA | 1,561 | 4.29 | 0.19 | 32,392 | 1.24 | 0.08 |
| AVG-PTA | 3,560 | 1.04 | 0.11 | 12,418 | 0.64 | 0.07 |
| AVF-T | 228 | 6.07 | 0.44 | 2,613 | 4.13 | 0.92 |
| AVG-T | 4,671 | 5.99 | 0.26 | 8,447 | 2.13 | 0.41 |
| Combined | 14,067 | 3.26 | 0.28 | 68,759 | 1.17 | 0.16 |
AVF, arteriovenous fistula; AVG, arteriovenous graft; Ex, exchange; Place, placement; PTA, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty; T, thrombectomy; TDC, tunneled dialysis catheter.
From “Effectiveness and safety of dialysis vascular access procedures performed by interventional nephrologists,” by G.A. Beathard, T. Litchfield, Physician Operators Forum of RMS Lifeline, Inc., 2004, Kidney Int, 66, p. 1622–1632. Reprinted with permission.